How a Tibetan Buddhist nun works with her anger
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Healing Anger 
Oct 22, 2024 Venerable Thubten Chodron was interviewed for the Everyday Better podcast hosted by Leah Smart.
- Meeting Buddhism and deciding to ordain
- How can we better understand our emotions?
- What is the Buddhist view of anger?
- How do we move toward acceptance of our anger?
- Is anger ever useful?
- Shifting our perspective to decrease anger
- Using humor
- Cultivating virtuous emotions as an antidote to negative emotions
- Completing three statements
Venerable Thubten Chodron
Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.
